Railroad-frog.



llNl'lED efllttllf@ PATENT @RUSH GENERAL B REED AND JAMES H. MORGAN, OF GREENVILLE, TEXAS.

RAILROAD-FROG.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, GENERAL B. REED and JAMES H. MORGAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Greenville, in the county of Hunt. State of Texas, have invented a.

new and useful Railroad-Frog, of whichthe following is a specification.

The present invention appertains to railroad frogs, and aims to provide a novel and improved lstructure of that character which will give double service, to increase the life and usefulness of the frog, the parts thereof being reversible or invertible.

W ith the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear 4the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and 1n the details of construction hereinafter describedI and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the inventionherein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

'l` he invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan View of the improved railroad frog. l

Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2-2 of the frog provided between the pairof frog rails 5, which have their terminals curved apart on divergent lines. Each of'the rails 5 is of double ball or tread formation,

lhaving the opposite balls or treads 6 'connected by an intervening web 7. The frog point, as well as the rails, are therefore re' versible orinvertible, the rails 5 being interchanged when reversed or inverted, and being duplicates of one another; In order to rigidly hold the frog point and rails 5 in place relatively, a ll-shaped spacer 8 is employed, having the diverging arms 9.

Specification of Letters Patent.

frog point is of V-shape and embodies which fit astride the frog point against the webs of the sections 1 between the balls 2 thereof. The arms 9 lit the .webs 7 ofthe 8 not only haslthe arms 9 providing supplemental spacers between the frog point and .Patented Nov. 27. 191W.,

Applcatim filed .Tune,4. 1917. Serial No. 172,711.

-rails 6 between the balls thereof. The spacer rails 5, but the crotch portion of the spacer.

8 also'serves to space the rails 5 apartheyond the point. Transverse bolts 10 extend through the webs 3 and 7 and through the spacer 8 for clamping all of said parts firmly together, to space the r-ails 5 from the frog point. lt is also preferable to provide one or more additional spacers 11 ,between the rails5.

The frog point and rails 5 are seated upon tie plates 12 extending transversely thereunder, and provided with upstanding lugs 13 for holding the parts in place thereon, the

plates being secured upon the underlying ties by means o-f suitable spikes 14e.

The main rails 15 of the track are attached I wider than the balls or treads of the o rdii nary rails, then the railsf15 can be offset,-

as shown in Fig. 1,-a`nd the correspondingv fish plates for the rail'joints are then used.y

With the present structure, the frog point l `.can be loosened and inverted, and the rails- 5 can also be inverted and interchanged whereby when the balls or treads which are uppermost /become worn out, the partscan be reversed to renew the life'thereof, and

thus double the usefulness of the frog. Furthermore, the entire structure can be turned upside down on the tie plates, without the necessity of separating the frog point and rails 5. e The structure can be vmodified 'or altered within the scope of what is hereinafter claimed, in adapting thesame to various conditions, andto provide frogs 'of various types.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

' A railroad frog embodying reversible interchangeable rails each having oppositel balls, a reversible frog point projecting between said rails embodyingconverging side sections fitting together snugly and each having opposite balls, a llshaped spacer ft ting astrde the frog point and between said as our own, we have hereto affixed our signarails, the spacer ttmg between the opposite tures in the presence of two witnesses.

balls of each rail and frog point sections, GENERAL B. REED.' and securing means extending through the JAMES H. MORGAN. rails, spacer and frog point to clamp them 1Witnesses:

all together. GEO. B. HALL,

lntestmony that we claim the foregoing ROBERT F. SPEARMAN. 

